You were right in assuming my basic topology consisted of 1 LM 8.0 server (acting as a gateway/router) with 2 nic's. Besides that all I have is one client machine running Win2K.
Now that you mention it you're also right about not needing to have port 139 open externally to use samba betw. my server and client. Prior to this debacle I had never done any firewalling or used iptables/ipchains so my comment about needing 139 open earlier was due to lack of knowledge. Once I figure out what's preventing my client from accessing the internet and DBI from making to a connection to MySQL I will use iptables to secure up my network now that I understand how to create rules. For now I'm primarily concerned with figuring out why my server won't forward requests made to servers outside my internal micro-lan. > Ben Nicolas wrote: >> >> Mr. Woods Thank you very much for replying to my post. >> >> port 139 I was leaving open for samba. I use samba so that I can >> download stuff straight from the internet to my linux box from my >> Win2K box. (At least I was back when my win2K box could connect to the >> internet). As for port 6000 I may want to close that up you're right >> but right now I more concerned with removing security than adding >> anything. I am trying to remove everything that stupide Firewall GUI >> added. If u look at my original post you'll see I've flushed my >> iptables and removed any file beginning with rc.firewall* from my rc.d >> directory. And obviously before I took any of those measures I went >> through the firewall GUI itself and undid as much as possible. You're >> right I need someone who knows what the f#$k the 'Tiny Firewall' GUI >> does, I'm finding that impossible. I even paid $15 for an expert to >> answer this question at MandrakeExpert.com. The response I got was >> totally useless some guy that clearly didn't read my post clearly >> simply told me to turn off my firewall and then told me how to close >> off all the ports I listed as open via the nmap -v my_ip snapshot >> prior to this debacle... >> >> Trust me I'll never use a GUI app in Linux again (I've already learned >> the hard way that RPM's were the brain child of Lucifer...) >> >> If anyone out there knows anything about how the specifics of what the >> 'Tiny Firewall' app does, I would highly appreciate your input >> relating to my problem >> >> Thank you >> > > OK, I am confused. Maybe we should back track a bit. I was under the > impression that this was a gateway/router box with two NIC's, one > internal and one external. In which case, you would not want any port > open, such as netbios/samba (port 139), to the external side. If you > would explain your network typology, maybe we could help... > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT SA > > -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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